Incredible.Natty IceAn international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced this week.By analyzing the sample, the researchers, working as part of the Beyond EPICA project, expect to glean critical insights about the Earth’s climate and atmosphere and why it shifted away from having more frequent ice ages.”Thanks to the ice core we will understand what has changed in terms of greenhouse gases, chemicals and dusts in the atmosphere,”…
